Kathleen Jeffs, D.Phil.

Associate Professor & Chair of Theatre and Dance

Kathleen teaches theatre from the perspective of performance using both classroom and studio methods. Kathleen began directing at GU in 2012 with her translation of a Spanish Golden Age play, The Force of Habit, written by Guillén de Castro, followed...

Courses Taught

Kathleen teaches theatre from the perspective of performance using both classroom and studio methods. Kathleen began directing at GU in 2012 with her translation of a Spanish Golden Age play, The Force of Habit, written by Guillén de Castro, followed by Alice, an adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland by Devin Devine. Kathleen was the co-director and dramaturg for the Magnuson audience record-setting Jesus Christ Superstar with Suzanne Ostersmith, and for the musical-history-comedy-tragedy version of Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, adapted by Sara Romersberger of Southern Methodist University. Recently she has collaborated in the Spokane community on Hapgood and Arcadia.

“Verse and Structure in The Lady Boba: A Woman of Little Sense: A Dramaturgy of Poetics in La dama boba” Comedia Performance 13.1, Spring 2016, 31-61.

“The Power of Transformation in Guillén de Castro’s El caballero bobo (1595-1605) and La fuerza de la costumbre (1610-15): Translation and Performance” In The Reinvention of Theatre in Sixteenth-Century Europe, ed. T. F. Earle and Catarina Fouto, (London: Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing, Legenda, 2015), 161-183.

‘Mellifluent Influence: Octavas reales in Translation in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Golden Age Season’ In Connecting Past and Present: Exploring the Influence of the Spanish Golden Age in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, ed. Aaron M. Kahn, (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 2015), 133-158.

“The Politics of Gender in Guillén de Castro’s La fuerza de la costumbre” In On Wolves and Sheep: Exploring the Expression of Political Thought in Golden Age Spain, edited by Aaron M. Kahn (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011), 147-176.

Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America University Caucus Sourcebook, Volume Four, edited by Kathleen Jeffs, Bryan Moore, and Roxanne Ray. Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, August 2011.

“Literature 1490-1700 (Drama)” In The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies, vol. 70 (Leeds: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2010), 329-353, co-authored with Jonathan Thacker.